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12/17/2008 06:51:00 PM

Avengers Assembling: Roster

Posted by Lorgen Shadoufang


Here's my list of the possible Avengers members -- including cameos -- for the upcoming superhero group movie:

1. Iron Man
2. Captain America
3. Hulk
4. Spider-Man
5. Fantastic Four (any or all of the four)
6. X-Men >Wolverine (12.17.2008, 18:53 - just saw the X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer on Rotten Tomatoes)
7. Thor
8. Daredevil

You can visit my previous blog post "The Grim Adventures of... The Avengers?" and check out the Avengers image that features the characters of the above list.
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11/27/2008 11:43:00 PM

Conspiracy on Myth Busters

Posted by Lorgen Shadoufang

Coincidence


I've just started watching conspiracy theory videos in the last week. Yesterday (and today, re-watched) I just finished Michael Moore's Sicko. Last Monday, I think, it was Food for the Future.

Tonight, I caught Mythbusters on Discovery Channel. And the mythbusting "theme": Moon Landing Hoax.

It was the first episode I've seen them "test" a conspiracy theory.

(Their methods and results disappointed me, however. They didn't seem to be testing, but confirming that the moon landing was true. I'm still not convinced that it happened. Sorry, Jamie, Adam, et al. I'm a huge fan, but really not of this particular episode.)

11/25/2008 05:56:00 PM

Holmes' House

Posted by Lorgen Shadoufang


If you've been watching the popular medical detective series 
House M.D. and you've read Sherlock Holmes stories but haven't seen their glaring connections, then you haven't read enough Holmes yet.

Or haven't watched enough House.


[will dig more into this later =')]
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11/25/2008 04:57:00 AM

From Typing to Special Effects

Posted by Lorgen Shadoufang

I'm a fast typer.
Typist?
Typist.

There we go.

I'm a fast typist. But it's nothing to brag about (there are a lot of better typists out there). I only said that because I was taught by my parents* that typing efficiently was necessary in my future careers. Turned out that it really became very useful.

So, what I did was take our blue typewriter with me to my next door cousin's place, and typed away with a friend (Adrian Callejo) who also brought his own typewriter.

There we went at the front yard: Type, type, type. qwerty, qwerty, qwerty... jkl;... the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog near the bank of the river (or was it "near the river bank"?) several times.
Lots of times.
(And we probably even had some discussion about maybe the fox got stuck in a well with the dog (and a goat?)... and they had to choose who to jump out first by standing on one of the other's back.)

[You have to read this now as if I were whispering:]

And then suddenly one night, when I closed my eyes, I saw keys inside my head, in all the blackness. I found myself looking at them, figuring out where each letter was, if the letter "F" was really beside "G" or maybe it was "J"... and hitting them slowly.
And I said to myself, "Wow... this is great. I can see them in my head. I'm learning without the actual typewriter."[Here I stop whispering] (And I think I laughed a bit. :')


That was maybe when I was around 10. Now, over 15 years later, I still go back to that technique, although I'm finding it more difficult now. While my learning by visualization** back then was spontaneous, now I had to force myself.

Now, I've decided to focus on doing digital visual art: graphics... design... animation, 3D, and special effects stuff, and there are oh, so many buttons and commands, and scripts, and menus, and... whew! on oh, so many programs that I just don't know what to visualize at a certain time.

I guess all I need is focus.***
And, admittedly, more real-time experience.

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A lot of times, though, after hours of playing Resident Evil, Starcraft, or Morrowind, images of those wonderful events still lingered in my head. I ran away from Ganados, cast spells, fired lasers, and went ASDW 'till my brain says, "All right, you addict, game's over."****

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*My Father was an officer of the Philippine Air Force, and he had to work on a lot of documents; my mother was a teacher-turned-Guidance-Office-Head who obviously was required to work on even way more typed documents.
**I'm sure there's a more precise term for this.
***I'm sort of a jack of all trades, which isn't that good in some cases. Such as this.
****No, it doesn't really say that.

11/13/2008 03:38:00 PM

Hitting on political corruption

Posted by Lorgen Shadoufang


Philippines -- Former agriculture undersecreteary Jocelyn "Joc Joc" Bolante is being probed today by the Senate for the fertilizer fund scam.

Corruption in politics and economics is akin to using pick-up lines in a bar: The guy exposes himself to rejection with full awareness (supposedly) so that he is ready to be rejected; the politician who pockets public funds (and gives away some for personal gains) is aware that this sort of action can get his sorry @$$ in the dungeon sewers. So he is ready.

I mean, political offenders always have ready alibis for the $#it they dump on us. They have teachers for that: lawyers, political advisers, friendly friends...
Of course it's difficult to cross-examine someone who does not want to tell the truth.


[Sorry, my train of thoughts ran out of steam :'8]

10/04/2008 09:30:00 AM

Photobucket sucks

Posted by Lorgen Shadoufang


That is now was how my wonderful blog looks looked.

Messed up, huh? Well, it's 'cos Photobucket is messed  up. I don't like their service. I have always been abhorred by how images linked to Photobucket always get broken or die.
I'm severing my connections to Photobucket. I won't even post a link of the site here.

Up yours!
[If you're wondering whether I've registered to Photobucket, no. Like I said, a lot of the dead linked images I've seen on the 'Net are mostly of Photobucket.]

*EDIT*10042008-1029H* All right! I've fixed it! I uploaded the photos to Imageshack and fixed the links in the blogger layout. Good as new. ='D

9/22/2008 08:58:00 AM

Charcoal 2 template edits

Posted by Lorgen Shadoufang

Okay, so I downloaded and set up kranthi's Blogger template "Charcoal 2" on mine.
But it's missing the quick edit buttons at the ending of every post (that pencil icon quick edit icon that allows for quick editing of posts when you're logged in at Blogger), and also the three buttons for RSS, Technorati, and Delicious. I liked the three buttons that were present in the Charcoal version 1 template.

So I implemented them here. O.C. style.
5 hours. Hah!

(Actually I did some other simple formatting tweaks (like the Spanish embelishments :'p)... it's still missing a lot of things, but this has got to be enough for now. I've got other things to do!)

9/22/2008, 11:45 >Just finished adding another 5 hours or so of editing time. Oh, man. I should stop now. I'm stopping now. I really couldn't add functionality to the three beautiful buttons (for RSS, Technorati, Delicious). Ah, well. That's just what they'll only be. Beautiful-looking buttons. For now.


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